Introduction

In version 2.7, child themes have been introduced in WordPress. Using Child themes, you can modify (override) all aspects of a Parent theme (e.g. the stylesheet, page templates, functions) without risking to lose any modifications when upgrading the parent theme.

Listed below are the child themes of Builder that can be downloaded from the member's area (latest at the top):

List of child themes

Attent

Introducing Attent, the latest Builder child theme designed for bloggers. Attent features a sleek, minimalistic design and a simple color scheme. With several alternate module styles like a built-in mobile nav and full window images, Attent is one of our favorite additions to the Builder child theme library.

Coverage

Introducing Coverage, a news and magazine child theme for iThemes Builder. Featuring a totally-new-to-Builder custom widget for displaying post content, Coverage was built and designed specifically with content-rich news and magazine sites in mind.

Air

Builder Child Air is a new foundational or starter child theme for iThemes Builder. Whether you’re using the Builder Style Manager or writing your own CSS, we hope Air will be a great new place to start when creating your custom responsive-ready Builder child themes.

Builder child Air includes several convenient built-in features to help lay the groundwork for custom child theme creation. A few of Air's theme highlights include:

Noise

12 March 2013

Today we’re pumped to release Noise, a responsive-ready Builder child theme with a brand new plugin for iThemes Builder, Builder Audio Block. Designed with musicians and bands in mind, Builder now makes it easy to create a WordPress band website with a “built-in” audio player, a way to display albums or discographies, a list of upcoming shows and support for music downloads/purchases with Easy Digital Downloads.

New Full Window and No Spacing Image Module Styles: Noise features new alternate module styles for images, including Full Window (or full width) and No Spacing. These new module styles for images can be added anywhere in your Builder Layouts.

Post Formats Styles: Ever wanted to post a quick status update or just a link? Noise includes new post format styles that add a Tumblr-like feel for your blog. From the Add New Post Page, you’ll see a new option to apply a format to the post, including standard, status, video, link or image.

Events Block Styling: To make it easy to include upcoming shows, Noise includes matching styles for Builder Events Block.

Threads

Need to build an online t-shirt shop on WordPress? We released a new feature-rich responsive-ready Builder Child Theme, Threads.

Threads is designed to integrate exclusively with Shopp, our favorite ecommerce plugin for WordPress. Threads includes 15+ Shopp-specific styled templates so you'll have one consistent look across the theme and ecommerce portions of the site, plus custom styles for product views, cart-in-navigation settings and much more.

Thrifty

Thrifty is a responsive ecommerce child theme for Builder. With a simple, minimalist design, Thrifty perfectly showcases your products by combining the usefulness of three popular ecommerce plugins with Builder's powerful layout engine.

Support for Three Ecommerce Plugins

Each of the following plugins provides its own set of ecommerce features and we've worked to highlight the functionalities of each in Thrifty:

Shopp (our recommended solution)

Easy Digital Downloads

WooCommerce

Just choose your plugin, upload and activate and Thrifty goes to work providing the styling for your online store.

Note: Thrifty (or any other Builder child theme) does not influence the functionality of the e-commerce plugin, but has styling and tweaked template files that enhance the presentation of the ecommerce plugin's output.

Book Nook

Gallery Church

You'll have everything you need for building a WordPress church website with our latest Builder child theme release: Gallery Church — featuring integrations with both Builder Church Block and the newly-released Builder Events Block.

With a bold and modern style, this theme is perfect for church sites that are both welcoming with a fresh, direct message and easy to navigate for visitors.

Kepler Light

Kepler Light is the "lighter" version of the original Kepler. Kepler Light features the same great photography-focused styling, great for showcasing your creative work.

Kepler Light includes several specific post styles to focus on featured images, all with a unique custom date stamp to add interest to your blog. With Kepler Light and Builder, you'll have the perfect foundation for creating awesome WordPress photography sites.

Depot

Depot is the first e-commerce Builder Child Theme. Depot features full integration and optimization of three different WordPress Ecommerce plugins: Shopp, Cart66 and WP-Ecommerce. Operating on iThemes Builder's powerful layout engine and paired with one of these eCommerce plugins, Depot is the perfect store-front for your WordPress-powered website or blog.

Expansion

Expansion, the latest child theme for iThemes Builder, boasts a high-contrast design with strong, simple, and clean edges. Besides the remarkable layout flexibility of all iThemes Builder child themes, Expansion also features several theme-specific details. It is a great child theme for small and large businesses. Featuring 3 alternate widget styles and a beautiful date stamp on each blog post, Expansion is the perfect choice for your next theme.

Patterned

A handcrafted look and feel – perfect for any special project or site. You'll love the Google Web Font (Rancho) that gives titles a special flair and draws people in to your site. From the stay-at-home blogging mom to the business looking for a softer, more subtle design, Patterned is a great choice for your next Builder child theme!

Architect

Acute

Acute is a clean business theme, perfect for giving your site a professional, polished look. Currently it is in gray and blue, there will be 4 more color options released soon.

With Acute you will find custom styled (default) widgets; integrated support for Slideshow and Accordion (2 plugins from the DisplayBuddy suite); image grid, portfolio and magazine extensions; plus a new custom portfolio extension – only available with Acute.

Covert

A quite stunning in its bold-yet-minimalist style. Similar to its related (sister?) theme Covell, Covert uses a minimalist, monochromatic style, but one that allows photographers and artists to display their work in a more dramatic and darker style.

Covert also includes 2 distinct navigation styles, making it easy to portray just the amount of "minimalism" you want, as well as the custom projects post type, making project organization and display a snap.

How to rename a child theme

You can also change other values like Theme URI, Description, Author etc.

DO NOT delete or change Template: Builder

2. Change the name of child theme directory to your liking.

Ex.: Change

BuilderChild-Default

to

MyAwesomeTheme

Ensure that there are no spaces in the name of child theme directory.

How to update a child theme

It is generally not recommended to update a child theme after it has been extensively customized.

However, if you would like to, follow these steps:

Take a full backup of your site using BackupBuddy

Make a list of changes and addition/deletions done to files and foldes in the current child theme directory

Download the latest version of child theme, edit its style.css, change the theme name in the comments section at the top, change the theme folder name to something else. For details, see the above section on How to rename a child theme

Re-apply the changes noted in step 2 to this theme

Zip it up, install and activate this new theme

Check the site and ensure that everything is alright. You can use a plugin like Theme Test Drive to see the site in older version of this child theme in another tab/browser